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Definition of binary digit in English:

binary digit

noun

‘The only catch is that the formula works for hexadecimal or binary digits but not for decimal digits.’

‘To simulate the Universe in every detail since time began, the computer would have to have 1090 bits - binary digits, or devices capable of storing a 1 or a 0-and it would have to perform 10120 manipulations of those bits.’

‘When discussing more modern ciphers, we tend to regard all messages as sequences of binary digits.’

‘As you can see from table 1, all the ASCII code words are the same length (7 binary digits for Standard ASCII and 8 binary digits for Extended ASCII).’

‘The essence of any ‘classical’ computer is its ability to store information: the ones and zeroes that are the binary digits - ‘bits’ for short - of our digital age.’

‘Writing the binary digits in order on a hexagonal grid, spiraling out from the starting cell, then coloring in every cell containing 1, generates an image after a sufficiently large number of revolutions along the spiral.’

‘While classical computers process binary digits of information, quantum processors use quantum bits, or qubits, encoded in the quantum states of particles such as atoms, photons and electrons.’

‘Each line, solid or broken, corresponds to a binary choice, a binary digit 0 or 1, if you will.’

‘It can be represented by one number or three binary digits.’

‘Given the first 280,000 binary digits of pi, the most frequently occurring block is 000, which appears 35,035 times, and the least common block is 111, which appears 34,944 times.’

‘Shannon, in his 1938 paper, ‘A Mathematical Theory of Communication,’ proposed the use of binary digits for coding information.’

‘Strings of binary digits are totally fungible.’

‘If you sum a thousand terms, the result is vanishingly close to 2, but the exact rational representation fills two thousand binary digits.’

‘The smallest Mersenne prime is 3, or in binary digits, 11.’

‘By the late 1970s, the scratchiness of Edison's invention was trying listeners' patience and scientists were developing a method that recorded sound by reducing it to binary digits.’

‘Thousands of binary digits have been reeled off in the correct order, hundreds of random numbers instantly recalled and the order of dozens of packs of cards stashed away in the memory bank.’

‘In the Williams tube or electrostatic memory, previously mentioned, a two-dimensional rectangular array of binary digits was stored on the face of a commercially-available cathode ray tube.’

‘To achieve what we normally call full-motion video (i.e. 30 frames per second), we actually have to send 221,184,000 binary digits per second.’

‘In his Master's thesis, Shannon showed that these binary digits can be represented by electrical switches.’